Perhaps you need a more realistic goal. Perhaps you should concentrate on being the best Perry Mason you can be? If you recall, he never lost a case — and was fairly hefty, too.

This way you can have your cake and eat it, too. If you ever do get a call from the Coach, you’ll have enough weight to respond; meanwhile you’ll be much sought- after by every wrongfully accused defendant in the state and can win all those cases.

Then you’re well on your way! By the way, “hefty” is good, as you have to heft the tacklers out of your way.

As for Mason’s time in the 40… I think he spent all his time on a Hollywood set arguing with Hamilton Berger. He approached the bench, but he never pressed it, as I recall. (The judge might have bonked him with that little hammer.)

I am still struggling to work with this at all. I know it works for Mark; but how does it “work” for me? Is it, the “best I can be?”, “I want to be?”, I was “meant to be”? It is confusing; I guess we all have our own language/words we reverberate to.